Congo (1995)
Laura Linney: Dr. Karen Ross
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Quotes
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Monroe : So why'd you quit the CIA?
Dr. Karen Ross : I never worked for the CIA.
Monroe : Of course you didn't. But if you HAD worked for the CIA, why would you quit?
Dr. Karen Ross : 'Cause they're a loveless bunch of sons of bitches.
Monroe : And you're not?
Dr. Karen Ross : And I'm not.
Monroe : Glad to hear it.
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Monroe : And this is your cover?
Dr. Karen Ross : Yes
Dr. Peter Elliot : I'm nobody's cover. Cover for what?
Monroe : ...find yourself in the middle of something.
Dr. Peter Elliot : Cover for what?
Monroe : I don't know and she won't tell you. But the kind of money her company's throwing around... they don't spend that on any gorilla. Relax. You're in better hands than you *should* be.
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Dr. Karen Ross : Why are they laughing?
Monroe : They asked who was in charge and I said I was.
Dr. Karen Ross : What's so funny about that?
Monroe : I'm black. I should have luggage on my head.
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Dr. Karen Ross : Are you serving that ape a martini?
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Dr. Karen Ross : This is for you Charlie...
[zaps satellite with laser]
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Dr. Peter Elliot : [as everyone on the plane prepares to jump] Why are they putting on parachutes?
Dr. Karen Ross : FIGURE IT OUT!
Richard : [Monroe tosses Richard a parachute] OH NO!
Dr. Peter Elliot : [the crew members begin jumping out of the plane. Monroe hands Peter a parachute] This isn't going to work!
Monroe : Oh, yes, it is. I'll take Amy.
Dr. Peter Elliot : She might get hurt. I can't risk it!
Monroe : Do you know how to fly this plane?
Dr. Peter Elliot : No.
Monroe : [nods toward the cockpit, where no one is at the controls] Well, the pilot and co-pilot are already gone, so what are you going to do?
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Captain Wanta : So Dr. Ross, I see you used to work for the C.I.A, and now you're Travi Com. Travi Com pays better than the C.I.A?
Dr. Karen Ross : You have a BIG mouth.
Captain Wanta : Everybody says that about me!
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[last lines]
Monroe : [in hot air balloon] There's a wind.
Dr. Peter Elliot : I hope it blows us some place good.
Dr. Karen Ross : Me too.
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Dr. Karen Ross : [after it's all over, setting up re-communication] I have some bad news. Charlie... he, uh... he was... killed.
Dr. Karen Ross : DID YOU GET THE DIAMOND? DID YOU?
Dr. Karen Ross : [in shock, after a long pause] ... yes.
Travis : [a breath of relief] ... Good girl.
Dr. Karen Ross : [after another pause, growing angry] Do you remember what I told you? That if I ever found out you sent me here for some diamond... and NOT for Charlie... that I would make you sorry?
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Dr. Karen Ross : Aren't you human?
Travis : I'll be human later!
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Monroe : That region of the Congo's uninhabited.
Dr. Karen Ross : Well, something inhabits it.
Dr. Peter Elliot : What exactly did you see on that tape?
Dr. Karen Ross : A camp destroyed. People dead. A grey gorilla...
Dr. Peter Elliot : There's no such thing as a grey gorilla.
Dr. Karen Ross : Well, I saw one.
Dr. Peter Elliot : It's hard to believe at this late date...
Monroe : Why are you going in there?
Dr. Karen Ross : Two men are unaccounted for: Geoffrey Weams, and Charles Travis, my fiance... My FORMER fiance.
Monroe : Your former?
Dr. Peter Elliot : Well, we better get to him then.
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Dr. Karen Ross : Are you sure there aren't some kind of gorillas that kill.
Dr. Peter Elliot : Please, Dr. Ross. What's your area of expertise? Folk-singing?
Dr. Karen Ross : [smugly] Communications technology.
Dr. Peter Elliot : So you're a geek with a cellular phone.
Dr. Karen Ross : I'm a scientist. But you and your protege, as far as I can see, belong in the circus.
[looks at Amy eating flowers]
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Dr. Karen Ross : Name your price.
Dr. Peter Elliot : I don't have a price! I'm not a pound of sugar, I'm a primatologist!
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[first lines]
Rudy, TraviCom Security : [over PA system] Doctor Ross. Doctor Ross. We've got satellite in the Congo.
Dr. Karen Ross : What did they say, Rudy?
Rudy, TraviCom Security : I can't repeat anything in here.
Dr. Karen Ross : It's Charles.
Rudy, TraviCom Security : It's Charles.
Rudy, TraviCom Security : [trying her access card] It won't work.
Dr. Karen Ross : You changed the code already?
Rudy, TraviCom Security : The old man's got me changing it every 3 hours now.
[imitating Cary Grant for voice print]
Rudy, TraviCom Security : Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.
Dr. Karen Ross : Very inventive!
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Dr. Peter Elliot : Here's the story. They domesticated gorillas.
Monroe : You call that domesticated? They're killing a man.
Dr. Peter Elliot : So they taught them to be this way. They bred them to violence. They looked for the trait, and they encouraged it.
Dr. Karen Ross : Guard dogs. And they turned on their masters.
Monroe : What's that smell?
Dr. Peter Elliot : [coming across a pile of bones] These are all the bones of gorillas.
Monroe : You mean these are the...
Dr. Peter Elliot : No, these are the bones of normal gorillas.
[picking a skull up]
Dr. Peter Elliot : This one's skull was crushed.
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Dr. Karen Ross : [Handing Peter a pistol] Here, Peter, take this.
Dr. Peter Elliot : I don't like guns.
Dr. Karen Ross : I didn't ask if you like it - take it.
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Dr. Peter Elliot : [coming across a crashed plane] Good Lord.
Monroe : It's that plane we saw burning in the sky.
Herkermer Homolka : Who were they?
Dr. Karen Ross : Travis, my boss, he thought I wasn't gonna make it. He sent another expedition.
Monroe : He tried to push away too far. Looks like a rocket got them. No point going in there.
Dr. Karen Ross : My God, what a waste of life.
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Dr. Karen Ross : Why teach an ape to talk?
Dr. Peter Elliot : No practical reason.
Dr. Karen Ross : Then why'd you do it?
Dr. Peter Elliot : "A lonely impulse of delight."
Dr. Karen Ross : William Butler Yates.
Dr. Peter Elliot : Very good.
Dr. Karen Ross : Did it work?
Dr. Peter Elliot : What do you mean?
Dr. Karen Ross : You're not lonely anymore?
Dr. Peter Elliot : Why are *you* going to Africa?
Dr. Karen Ross : To find something I lost.
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Dr. Karen Ross : Tell me you love your son!
Travis : I do!
Dr. Karen Ross : And that's why you're sending me!
Travis : It is!
Dr. Karen Ross : Allright. But if I have one moment, one *moment* when I think otherwise, I will make you sorry. And that's a promise.
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Dr. Karen Ross : [Soldiers with guns run by] Who are they?
Eddie Ventro : [to soldiers] Hiya fellas!
[to Karen]
Eddie Ventro : Fuck if I know, and it don't pay to ask.
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Dr. Karen Ross : [just before signing out and destroying the satellite] This is for you, Charlie.
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Monroe : This, as they say, is a fork in the road. We could go left or we could go right. If we go the wrong way, we lose two or three days.
Herkermer Homolka : We must follow the gorilla, where she leads.
Monroe : That would be left.
Dr. Karen Ross : My best guess off my last coordinates was this way.
Monroe : That'd be right.
Amy : Amy, Peter, go this way.
Dr. Karen Ross : Well... I don't have her passion. I'll follow the gorilla.
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Dr. Karen Ross : So, what is this Zinj, Mr. Homolka?
Herkermer Homolka : I don't know what you're talking about.
Monroe : It's always been believed that King Solomon had a diamond mine in the Congo in a city called Zinj.
Dr. Karen Ross : Diamonds?
Herkermer Homolka : I suppose there is no point in playing stupid. We shall arrive there together, we shall all be rich.
Monroe : That's fine with me, except there is no Zinj.
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Monroe : [seeing Amy with a troop of wild gorillas] Well, look at that.
Dr. Karen Ross : Is that Amy with the...
Dr. Peter Elliot : The silverback. So she's... I see. I see. She's home.
[as the nearby volcano continues to erupt, the gorillas leave when they aren't looking]
Dr. Peter Elliot : Will she be all right?
Monroe : They know what to do. It's us I'm worried about.
Dr. Karen Ross : We've gotta go. Come on.
Dr. Peter Elliot : [following them away] Bye, Amy.
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Dr. Karen Ross : They're gone.
Monroe : Couple of hours 'til first light, then we're out of here.
Herkermer Homolka : And those hieroglyphics we saw inscribed everywhere... I have translated them.
Dr. Peter Elliot : What do they say?
Herkermer Homolka : "We are... watching you."
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Dr. Peter Elliot : Somebody help me!
Monroe : What is it?
Dr. Peter Elliot : There's something on my... it's like a creature or a growth or something on my...
[opening his boxers]
Dr. Peter Elliot : Look.
Monroe : [peeking] Oh, that's a leech.
Dr. Peter Elliot : Well, take it off.
Monroe : I'm not going to take it off. It's your leech. You take it off.
Dr. Karen Ross : Need some help?
Dr. Peter Elliot : No.
Monroe : [offering his cigarillo] Here. Burn it off with this.
Dr. Peter Elliot : [groaning] Ohh...
Dr. Karen Ross : Mmm...
Dr. Peter Elliot : This is disgusting.
[sarcastically as she and the others snicker]
Dr. Peter Elliot : Thank you for your compassion.
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Monroe : We've lost two porters.
Dr. Karen Ross : Where'd they go?
Monroe : Ran away.
Richard : And they didn't invite me?
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Monroe : Don't go in there! I'll check it out.
Dr. Karen Ross : Give me a gun and a flashlight!
Monroe : Well, don't be so John Wayne. You could get killed. Now that I've said that, I'm not going in there alone, either.
Herkermer Homolka : I must go.
Dr. Peter Elliot : Let's all take a look.
Richard : Uh, I-I think I'll just stay out here with Amy.
Monroe : Not alone, you won't.
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Herkermer Homolka : I knew it was true. The City of Zinj. The diamonds...
[blowing dirt off of one and kissing it]
Herkermer Homolka : Every word of it was absolutely true!
Dr. Peter Elliot : I'd leave those alone.
Dr. Karen Ross : Any other way out of here?
Monroe : Not that I've noticed.
Herkermer Homolka : Help me. Fill up everything. Come on!
[collecting as many diamonds as he can carry]
Herkermer Homolka : You've got to get me out of here.
Monroe : Take a number.
Herkermer Homolka : But we're gonna be rich!
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Dr. Karen Ross : We're getting out of here.
Monroe : We are? What about them.
Dr. Karen Ross : Put 'em on the endangered species list.
[firing her company's laser gun at the gorillas]
Dr. Karen Ross : Come on! Monroe! Let's go! Move!
Monroe : What the hell is that?
Dr. Karen Ross : The latest thing in communication.
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Herkermer Homolka : [discussing the legend of King Solomon's mines] We have a trumping card that they did not have.
Monroe : We do?
Herkermer Homolka : We do. That gorilla knows where it is.
Dr. Karen Ross : What?
Monroe : The gorilla?
Herkermer Homolka : As a young man, I found a book in Soviet Georgia. It contained a detailed drawing of the city of Zinj. The drawing contained a peculiar decoration; an open eye. Later, on safari, I found this.
[showing Karen his ring]
Herkermer Homolka : It's the same symbol. Now... look at this.
[showing her one of Amy's drawings]
Herkermer Homolka : The gorilla drew this. It is the same image. It is the open eye. That gorilla... has seen the city of Zinj. And she will take us there!
Monroe : Have you been taking your medication?
Herkermer Homolka : [mimicking his chuckle sarcastically] Have your laughing, and I will have mine!
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Dr. Peter Elliot : See anything?
Dr. Karen Ross : No, but I'm your last line of defense. We have sensor-operated machine pistols on tripods out there. Anything comes within 40 feet, get ready for the 4th of July.
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Dr. Karen Ross : [Amy tries to communicate with a troop of gorillas] She doesn't really belong anywhere, does she?
Dr. Peter Elliot : No, she belongs here.
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Dr. Karen Ross : I have some bad news. Charles... he, uh... he was killed.
Travis : DID YOU GET THE DIAMOND? DID YOU?
Dr. Karen Ross : ...Yes.
Travis : Good girl.
Dr. Karen Ross : Do you remember what I told you before? That if I found out you sent me out here only for that diamond... and not for Charlies, I WOULD MAKE SORRY?
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Dr. Karen Ross : You have our visas. You have our manifest. This is a legitimate scientific mission. You have no right to detain us.
Captain Wanta : Liar, liar. Your pants on fire. So says my computer, Miss Ross.
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Dr. Peter Elliot : [Their aircraft comes under fire as they cross the border into Zaire] What's going on? What the hell is that?
Monroe : [Waking up from a nap] Shit! I thought we'd get a little farther.
[Amy starts to get agitated]
Monroe : I'd put her out now, doctor!
Dr. Peter Elliot : Oh you would, would you?. Who's firing on us?
Monroe : [Ignoring him] Kahega!
[Kahega hands him half a banana, with a tranquilizer hidden inside]
Dr. Karen Ross : [Explaining to Peter] We've crossed the border into Zaire. We're violating their airspace.
Monroe : [Giving the drugged banana to Amy] She likes bananas?
Dr. Peter Elliot : Sure, she likes bananas!
Monroe : [to Amy] Eat this, darling!
[to Peter]
Monroe : She's going to feel great.
Dr. Peter Elliot : What do you mean?
Monroe : Something to keep her calm. Gorilla Prozac!
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Dr. Peter Elliot : What are you smiling about?
Dr. Karen Ross : You need me, Dr. Elliot.
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Dr. Karen Ross : Why teach an ape to talk?
Dr. Peter Elliot : Why teach at all? Why teach anything to anyone? It doesn't make you rich. It doesn't get you girls. Why did Prometheus steal fire only to turn around and give it away? There's an inherent generosity in the human spirit. One of its faces is the face of the teacher.
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Dr. Karen Ross : ls that animal dangerous?
Dr. Peter Elliot : Humans are dangerous, gorillas are very gentle.
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Eddie : You got like 11 good guys, significant firepower, significant technology. And more than that, I don't think you're gonna need. Do you agree?
Dr. Karen Ross : I agree.